Reformations Old and New
Reformations Old and New

Author: Beat Kümin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1351905775

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This collection of essays examines the practical impact of religious change in Central and North Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. It focuses on the effects of reform on clergy, church resources, ecclesiastical patronage, education and poor relief. The title reflects the elementary conclusion that there was no one monolithic experience of ’Reformation’, that initiatives were taken for very different reasons, and that they displayed innovative as well as conservative features. While offering a great breadth of original research and subject matter, all authors devote particular attention to three main themes: the blend between continuity and change, the share of religious factors in socio-economic developments, and the identification of winners and losers. Taken together, the essays illustrate the scarcity of unambiguous trends, the tenacity of socio-economic structures, the modification of religious dogma by the ’real’ world, and the conspicuous benefits of religious change for the social élites.

Reformation Old and New
Reformation Old and New

Author: F. W. Camfield

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-06-10

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1606087681

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This book is intended as a tribute of gratitude and regard to Professor Karl Barth, and as a greeting to him on the attainment of his sixtieth birthday. Its contributors are drawn from different sections of the Christian Church and they represent various tendencies in British theological thought. Some of the contributors include: - F. W. Camfield - J. McConnachie - T. F. Torrance - G. Hendry - H. F. Lovell Cocks - D. T. Jenkins - H. A. Hodges - W. A. Whitehouse

The Reformation of Prophecy
The Reformation of Prophecy

Author: G. Sujin Pak

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0190866926

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The Reformation of Prophecy illuminates the significant shifts in the Protestant reformers' engagement with the prophet and biblical prophecy-shifts from advancing the priesthood of all believers to strengthening Protestant clerical identity and authority to operating as a site of polemical-confessional exchange concerning right interpretations of Scripture.

Old Texts, New Practices
Old Texts, New Practices

Author: Etty Terem

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2014-04-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780804787079

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In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Al-Wazzani's legal opinions addressed practical concerns and questions: What are the ethical and legal duties of Muslims residing under European rule? Is emigration from non-Muslim territory an absolute duty? Is it ethical for Muslim merchants to travel to Europe? Is it legal to consume European-manufactured goods? It was his expectation that these fatwas would help the Muslim community navigate the modern world. In considering al-Wazzani's work, this book explores the creative process of transforming Islamic law to guarantee the survival of a Muslim community in a changing world. It is the first study to treat Islamic revival and reform from discourses informed by the sociolegal concerns that shaped the daily lives of ordinary people. Etty Terem challenges conventional scholarship that presents Islamic tradition as inimical to modernity and, in so doing, provides a new framework for conceptualizing modern Islamic reform. Her innovative and insightful reorientation constructs the origins of modern Islam as firmly rooted in the messy complexity of everyday life.

The Age of Reform 1250-1550
The Age of Reform 1250-1550

Author: Steven Ozment

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1980-09-28

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0300186681

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“A masterful . . . intellectual and religious history of late medieval and Reformation Europe.”—Christianity Today"A learned, humane, and expressive book."—Gerald Strauss, Renaissance QuarterlyThe seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformations—both Protestant and Catholic—of the sixteenth century. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions, and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society.

A Retrieved Reformation
A Retrieved Reformation

Author: O. Henry

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2020-08-26

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13: 8726587629

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Do you believe that people can change? Can a bank robber marry the banker’s daughter without having any hidden thoughts and intentions? "A Retrieved Reformation" tells the story of Jimmy, a formal prisoner, who decides to quit violating the law in the name of love. He takes up a new identity and starts a new life as an honorable man. However he is about to face a choice which can cost him his future. Will he sacrifice himself in order to save a child in danger or he will prefer to keep his old identity in secret? William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry, was an American writer who lived in the late 19th century. He gains wide popularity with his short stories which often take place either in New York or some small American towns. The plot twists and the surprise endings are a typical and integral part of O. Henry’s short stories. Some of his best known works are "The Gift of the Magi", "The Cop and the Anthem", "A Retrieved Reformation". His stories often deal with ordinary people and the individual aspects of life. As a result of the outstanding literature legacy that O. Henry left behind, there is an American annual award after his name, given to exceptional short stories.